La Causa: Cesar Chavez

How was the Chavez family affected in the 1930's when the Great Depression hit the United States?

• They lost their farm and grocery store
• They started a new business
• They had to stop growing grapes and start growing lettuce
• All of the above

What are migrant workers?

• People who buy farms
• People who go from farm to farm to find work
• People who sell farms
• People who own farms

The Chavez family and other migrant workers faced many obstacles. Which of the following was a problem they faced?

• living with no electricity
• earning very low pay or no pay at all
• living in camps with no running water
• all of the above

What was an effect of Cesar moving around a lot as a child?

• he never learned to read
• he never went to school
• he attended over 30 different schools
• all of the above

What important idea did Chavez learn from Mohandas Ganhi & Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• You must use violence to bring about change
• You need a lot of money to change things
• You can use nonviolent protests to bring important change
• All of the above

Chavez organized ____ to help migrant workers get better pay & working conditions.

• labor unions
• schools
• churches
• stores

Others had tried to organize farm workers into unions before Chavez. Why was it so difficult?

• Farm owners used violence to prevent the workers from joining unions
• Getting people who moved around a lot to join a group was difficult
• Both answers are true

What is a strike?

• going without food to make a point
• an organized walk taken by a group of people
• refusal by workers to work to protest
• refusing to buy something as a protest

What was the effect of the grape strike in California?

• Grape growers decided to stop growing grapes.
• Working conditions and pay improved for workers. 
• Working conditions and pay for workers stayed the same.
• People bought more grapes.

Why did Chavez go on a 36-day fast in 1988?

• to protest low pay
• to protest poor working conditions
• to protest farm owners who grew grapes
• to protest the use of pesticides